[mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV

Drew Tomlinson drew at mykitchentable.net
Wed May 4 17:56:32 UTC 2005


On 5/3/2005 5:15 PM Howard Cokl wrote:

>--- Drew Tomlinson <drew at mykitchentable.net> wrote:
>  
>
>>I'm trying to build a MythTV box.  I've been using
>>FreeBSD for around 4 
>>years but  I have no experience with Linux.  So my
>>first attempt was to 
>>build Myth on FreeBSD but there were lots of
>>problems and eventually I 
>>gave up.   Since MythTV was written for Linux I
>>thought I might have an 
>>easier time just using Linux.
>>
>>I started with Knoppmyth but couldn't get the CD to
>>boot on my system.  
>>Lurking here and seeing the success others were
>>having with Fedora and 
>>Jarod Wilson's guide prompted me to give that a try.
>> But unfortunately, 
>>I have a Promise 150 SATA controller in my system. 
>>Attached to this 
>>card is a PATA (regular IDE) drive.  However the
>>sata_promise driver 
>>doesn't support the PATA interface on this card. 
>>Only the SATA 
>>interfaces. 
>>
>>Googling suggested that to get this support, I
>>needed to patch the 
>>sources with libata-devel and rebuild my own kernel.
>> Lot's of googling 
>>later and I've built and installed a custom kernel. 
>>Seems to boot fine 
>>and the PATA drive is now recognized!  :)   But now,
>>other packaged 
>>modules such as the nvidia and ivtv drivers in Jarod
>>Wilson's guide 
>>don't work.   :(   I suspect this is because they
>>were packaged for the 
>>default kernel and not the custom one I built?
>>
>>It appears I need to learn a whole lot more about
>>Linux and how to build 
>>what I need from source.  Am I on the right track? 
>>Can anyone suggest 
>>some good newbie guides to this stuff?  I find
>>snippets googling but 
>>have been unable to turn up any complete guides.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Drew
>>
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>nvidia and ivtv are very easy, nvidia just download
>the version you want (probably 7174) so wget
>ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-7174/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run
>and then as root sh
>./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run
>It'll do everything for you, build and install the
>kernel module and the xorg driver/libs.
>For ivtv just download what you need, I have a old
>freestyle so I would use wget
>http://www.ivtv.tv/releases/ivtv-0.2/ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j.tgz
>tar xzf ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j.tgz; cd
>ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j/driver; make; make install; cd
>../utils; make make install
>Hope this make sense, trying to get the kids ready for
>bed.  
>I had to create some devices in /etc/udev/devices for
>the nvidia stuff and had to set up an file to load
>modules before mythbackend starts, basically modprobe
>ivtv 
>  
>
Thanks Howard!  I've been able to compile these parts and get them 
running.  However I still don't understand if I'm going to be able to 
use rpms that are generally available or if I will need to compile code 
for everything I want to run.

Thanks,

Drew

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